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Sep 26, 2013

Summer Projects: Rainfall Study and Severe Weather Stats

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. First up is Colin Loftin, a senior in Meteorology at NC State. This summer I completed two separate projects. For the first half of summer, I worked on a comparison of daily MPE (Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimates) and PRISM…

Feb 27, 2013

Upgrades to Wind Rose Tool

A wind rose is a graphical tool used to show wind speed and wind direction for a particular location over a specified period of time. The wind rose is divided into a number of spokes which represent the frequency of winds blowing from a particular direction. For example, the longest spoke on the wind rose…

Jan 17, 2013

When is it Most Likely to Snow?

With the threat of snow for much of North Carolina in the forecast, we wondered how typical was the timing of this event. We often get asked about when the first snowfall for a region typically is – a question easily answered with our Climate Thresholds tool. For example, the most typical first day of…